Pharaoh!

LeJosh

LeJosh

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Is anyone playing this still?

I managed to pick up the ol' goliath version for 50p out of a exchange store in Edinburgh. Works fine on XP.

Question is, do any of you still go back to this for a good ol' nostalgia blast or strategy fun?

I think it's still brilliant! Water management, food management, crime management... Other wise known as micro-management. x)

Fun times, will post a few screenies up maybe.
 
That game was really fun I recall, very addicting too much like Caesar III and Zeus. oooh and the settlers series...


Nope, haven't played any of them old classics but you might have just sparked some renewed interest. :p



- Ordokai
 
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From wahat I remember there was no fast forward button? As I recall waiting ages for stone geting moved across the landscape to my pyramid!
 
took ages and hundreds of storage yards to build pyramids :D

never knew what to do with the 1/3 of the map i had dedicated to massive rows of storage yards once the monuments where done :p

(although solving the mass unemployment from the closing of the yards and many of the mines was always easy, wall them in and let em burn :p
 
Great game, still play it once in a while.

From wahat I remember there was no fast forward button? As I recall waiting ages for stone geting moved across the landscape to my pyramid!
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If you put the game speed on 100% on modern hardware, it'll fly.
 
Ahhh what an awesome game!
Spent many a childhood game playing this when it came free with a PC my mums ex bought!
Back when PCs came with free games :P

May have to go get this tomorrow now!
 
Tefal said:
hehe when you had a bad crop did you use to delete bazaars around the poorer districts so only the plebs would starve and the rich taxpayers stay happy? :p
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Nope, although I wish I had. Is Pharaoh the game where you would get crowds of people walking the streets as a mob before setting fire to buildings?
 
No.


hehe when you had a bad crop did you use to delete bazaars around the poorer districts so only the plebs would starve and the rich taxpayers stay happy?
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You could also RMB on the bazaar and stop it from stocking food in the menu...

Food is usually not a problem in pharaoh in my experience, ( early on when you just get the non working classes in, and late on when population aging strikes ( usually only on very long missions where you need to build monuments but are dependent on ( the way too small) imports for the materials), I was surprised this was an issue but after a long while playing you get less and less working with the same population & social status) shortage of workers or getting your culture rating really high (80+) with high population is :(. Prosperity & Kingdom is really easy to push up, culture is hard as even if all your housing is served, you need a certain (large) amount of schools, libraries, entertainment stages/venues per xxx/xxxx inhabitants, it's not the quality of the service but the quantity that matters :(:(. This in turn eats space and papyrus. Don't think I ever managed 100 culture 100 prosperity 100 kingdom with a population of 10 k or more on normal difficulty or higher.


Imo the main difficulty's with pharaoh are ( at a normal or higher difficulty level):

Early on, income, before the non working classes( who pay loads and loads of tax)/the initial economy set up, especially on missions with loads of request or combat early on.
Worker shortage.
Culture rating.
Being dependent on imports, especially in large cities you need far more than 4k of certain goods per year. And if one (trading)city provides multiple essential resources, you can't even reach the cap because of the 3( iirc ?) ship/2 land traders limit per (trading)city on the map, large maps only make the problem worse.
Combat at large difficulty levels on the late missions.
 
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